Squee! Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to be published as a book this summer

[dragonfly]

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be released as a book this summer.

The "special rehearsal edition" script book will be available at midnight on July 31, a day after the Harry Potter play opens in London.

The eBook will be published simultaneously with the print editions by Pottermore, Rowling's digital entertainment and e-commerce company, in collaboration with Little, Brown Book Group in the United Kingdom; and Scholastic in the United States and Canada.

The limited preview edition is not the final edition, a move made to allow the play's creative team to make changes while the play is in previews, according to the publisher. A "Definitive Collector's Edition" will be available later.

[Rainbowrific Renia]

Ooooooh, EXCITING!

I remember how pumped I would get when they did midnight releases for all of the Harry Potter books. My grandma would take me out to buy the books every time a new one came out, it was such a great feeling.

I look forward to this!

[melodys_angel]

This will be interesting

[Carrehz]

Aw yessss! I don't know if I'll be able to see the play or not, so this is awesome news .

[Galactica]

Wow, cool!

[bewilderness]

Yayyy!!!

[Violet CLM]

So people in 99% of the world will be able to experience it. Neat!

[apanda0622]

I had no idea another book was coming out!  I never read the books, but did see all the movies a ton of times lol.  Does this book take place after the Deathly Hallows when Harry is grown up?

[dragonfly]

Yep. Deathly Hallows has an epilogue where Harry is grown up and sending his kid off to Hogwarts and this picks up after the epilogue.

[kaoskat]

Not my thing but I'm glad you will have something to look forward to!

[Beldarna]

This is awesome. I had no idea this was coming up! So exciting!

[Majesty]

I'm a big harry potter fan, but never did Pottermore or anything like that, because I heard you have to pay for the membership. I've read all the books but didn't start reading them well after all the movies were out.

I don't know anything about this book.  How did you guys find out about it?  Also, I know someone here asked if it takes place after The Deathly Hollows and it was answered yes so my extension of that question is is this book about Harry's son?  I remember reading that before the end of The Deathly Hollows Part 2 Harry had a first son named James then at the end of The Deathly Hollows Part 2 Harry sends off to school his second son Albus (but at the time I didn't know that Harry had a son before Albus).  So, if this is a book about Harry's son going to Hogwarts, which son would it be about?

[Kanchii]

I can't WAIT!!!!

[Kiwi]

Squee!

[scarletjul]

Interesting.